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Category Archives: IaC

Recently a number of customers have been coming to Dell EMC asking for us to help them with Infrastructure as Code solutions that will allow them to use DevOps methodologies such as CI/CD to provision to multi-cloud environments such as Azure,AWS,Google Cloud and on-premises solutions. These kinds of solutions are becoming more and more prevalent in my experience and although they don’t fit for all companies the capabilities of IaC are undeniable and will allow many companies to stay relevant and allow them to go to market much quicker and in a much more automated manner.

So alike to a lot of resources I post on this blog I started collating all the learning resources I could so that I could learn all about the possibilities of IaC and the various methods it could be accomplished. I have built the below list and will be adding to it over time. Also do keep an eye out on the vBrownbag as we plan to do many more IaC sessions very soon

The first place I started was to read this book to understand IaC better. This book was really good and was so easy to read that the Client Solutions Director I was working on an RFP response with for a customer read half of it and found it extremely helpful for him to understand IaC from a sales perspective and gave him the ability to talk to it confidently

Next was a blog posting by a fellow vBrownbag (and the OG of the vBB crew who created vBrownbag) Cody Bunch all about using Terraform with vSphere.

Speaking about AWS there are case studies and whitepapers I read about capabilities of IaC with AWS that were really helpful in my understanding. There is also a really good Cloud Academy lab you can do to learn some of the CloudFormation pieces here.